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		<title>America&#8217;s victory in Lebanon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Perry, Bitterlemons, June 12, 2008
The prime minister of His Majesty&#8217;s Government, the rotund Lord North&#8211;reputed (falsely) to be the bastard son of George III&#8211;once sniffed to his cabinet that if it were not for the interference of France, the American colonists would surely return to the loving arms of their mother country. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2008/americas-victory-in-lebanon/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Political Islam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A two-day specialist course organised by British Muslim Initiative and supported by Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, Conflicts Forum, Demos, Forward Thinking and The Cordoba Foundation.
Venue: Olympia Conference Centre
Date: 12-13 July 2008
As recognized or unrecognized oppositions, parties in coalition governments or fully in power, or active players in civil society, Islamists have risen to prominence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2008/understanding-political-islam/</link>
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		<title>Terror and truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, June 1, 2008
Sir Hugh Orde speaks rarely heard truth when he says that he has never heard of a terrorist campaign that was &#8220;policed out&#8221;, adding that he could not think of one that had not ended through negotiation.
There has been an unshakeable faith in Europe that western law-enforcement officers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2008/terror-and-truth/</link>
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		<title>Nasrallah&#8217;s speech delivered on the 8th anniversary of the Resistance and Liberation Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The speech of the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sayyid Hassan Nassrallah, delivered on the 8th anniversary of the Resistance and Liberation Day, Al Raya Playground, Southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, May 26, 2008
First of all, a great greeting is paid to every pure spirit of the resistance and homeland martyrs; especially that of the leader [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2008/nasrallahs-speech-delivered-on-the-8th-anniversary-of-the-resistance-and-liberation-day/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;But what if nobody takes notice?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, May 11, 2008
“But what if nobody takes notice?” is the question posed by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha in an article in the recent New York Review of Books concerning the putative ‘shelf agreement’ being discussed between President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert. A ‘shelf agreement’ is an exercise in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2008/but-what-if-nobody-takes-notice/</link>
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		<title>Carter meeting sparks new debate over engaging Hamas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Perry (Conflicts Forum) and Robert Satloff (Washington Institute for Near East Policy), NewsHour, PBS, April 18, 2008
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met Friday with leaders from Hamas, a militant group labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Israel. The meeting sparked renewed debate over whether any negotiations should include the Palestinian group. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2008/carter-meeting-sparks-new-debate-over-engaging-hamas/</link>
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		<title>From Mitchell to Annapolis and Beyond: Thoughts on the American Role in Palestinian-Israeli Peacemaking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remarks of Frederic C. Hof, The Palestine Center of the Jerusalem Fund, March 20, 2008
Fred Hof, a keen Middle East observer and former member of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, presented a paper on the current Israeli-Palestinian situation, &#8220;From Mitchell to Annapolis and Beyond: Thoughts on the American Role in Palestinian-Israeli Peacemaking&#8221; at the Palestine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2008/from-mitchell-to-annapolis-and-beyond-thoughts-on-the-american-role-in-palestinian-israeli-peacemaking/</link>
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		<title>The naive armchair warriors are fighting a delusional war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, March 24, 2008
The French philosopher Michel Foucault notes that in all societies discourse is controlled - imperceptibly constrained, perhaps, but constrained nonetheless. We are not free to say exactly what we like. The norms set by institutions, convention and our need to keep within the boundaries of accepted behaviour and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2008/the-naive-armchair-warriors-are-fighting-a-delusional-war/</link>
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		<title>The Middle East Peace Process: the case for jaw-jaw not war-war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Ancram, Accord (Issue 19), Conciliation Resources, 2008
When I opened talks with Sinn Féin/Irish Republican Army (IRA), such was the anger of the Ulster Unionists that they declared me &#8216;contaminated&#8217; and withdrew from talks with me. Yet as a direct result of those initial communications in the early 1990s we now have the makings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2008/the-middle-east-peace-process-the-case-for-jaw-jaw-not-war-war/</link>
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		<title>Arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, Conflicts Forum, March 4, 2008
I woke up on Wednesday February 20th on the news of the arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam, IkhwanWeb.com co-editor in chief. I was on a short visit to Egypt and had met Hamza on Tuesday night, where we went over several contentious issues including the ongoing military [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2008/arrest-of-khaled-hamza-salam/</link>
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